So this is where the similarity between my situation and Ed's ends but I can't resist a good old fashioned happy ending. Thank you for all your reads and reviews and I hope you enjoy the final chapter :D

It had been a couple of days since Ed had poured his heart out to Roy and I had admitted that I do actually get quite jealous about certain stuff and I was starting to feel like myself again. I was sleeping better, that awful gaping hole inside my chest seemed to have closed and Lust even mentioned that I was smiling a lot more. I felt better in myself too and I felt as if I could go back to doing my job and could actually do it properly again while I was at it. All in all I was pretty much back to normal.

Ed was back to himself too. He hadn't had an easy time of it but he was doing better than he had been. He had spent a couple of nights in with Winry, just hanging out not doing much, and that had been a huge help. He had also been quietly getting on with his essays when he didn't have class and wasn't reading, which was also taking his mind off Roy and everything to do with Roy. Basically back to normal.

"How are you doing Envy?" Lust asked giving my shoulder a squeeze as she came over to where I was sitting at the Control Panel.

"Yeah," I replied looking over my shoulder at her, smiling. "Pretty good."

"Good," she said. She wrapped her arms around my neck and rested her chin on my head. "What's Ed up to?"

"Essay work mostly," I replied.

"But his deadlines aren't for another month," she said.

"Yeah but Winry's working and he needs something to do rather than sit around reading Lord of the Rings for the eighth time," I told her. "Plus a month is nothing."

"Always the sensible one," she chuckled. I'm glad he's functioning like a normal human again," she added after a pause. I placed my hand on her arm.

"Me too," I replied.

"And I'm glad you're feeling better too," she said giving me a squeeze.

"Yeah me too," I said nodding. She laughed and ruffled my hair before pulling up another chair and sitting down next to me.

"Everything is back to normal," she said.

"It's only back to normal when..."

"Hey Envy," Gluttony interrupted, appearing behind us. "Is it lunch time yet?"

"Now everything is back to normal," I told her before turning to Gluttony. "Twenty minutes."

"Okay," he beamed happily and trotted off to go and bother Sloth.

"Okay now everything is back to normal," she chuckled.

"No more surprises," I replied.

Ed stretched until he felt his shoulders click. He had been working on his current essay for most of the morning and it was high time he took a break. He got to his feet and made his way over to the kitchen to start making himself something to eat. He wasn't sure what; he just knew that he was hungry. He was just about to open the fridge when a knock at the door caught his attention. He left the fridge and stuck his head out into the corridor and stared at the door.

The person on the other side knocked again and Ed realised that they weren't going away, meaning that it probably wasn't the Jehovah's Witnesses from three doors down who kept trying to convert him (they usually only knocked once and then gave up). It couldn't be Winry because she had to work until late and she said she would text him when she was done. There was no one else he was expecting. He made his way over to the door before he took a deep breath and opened it, expecting to come face to face with an annoying sales man. What he didn't expect was to see Roy on the other side.

"What was that you were saying about no more surprises?" Lust asked, grinning at me.

"Son of a bitch!" I groaned. "Can't we just shut the door in his face?"

"Let's see what he has to say first," she said.

"You're only saying that because you still think he's hot," I muttered turning back to the screen and crossing my arms over my chest.

"You say that like it's a surprise," she laughed, smirking and tossing her hair over her shoulder.

"Hey," Ed said a little breathlessly. Out of everyone who could have been on the other side of the door Roy was the last person he had expected to see.

"Hello," Roy said. "Can I come in?"

"Sure," Ed shrugged after a pause. He stood aside so Roy could enter before closing the door behind him. "Do you want a coffee or something?"

"That would be lovely," Roy said.

"Cool," Ed said and led Roy to the kitchen. He went to the fridge and pulled out a pint of milk. "Milk's..." he checked the date, opened it and gave it an experimental sniff, "not off."

"Black will be fine thank you," Roy said.

"Probably a wise choice," Ed muttered as he replaced the milk and closed the fridge before going to fill the kettle with water. He switched it on and leaned against the counter, folding his arms over his chest and surveying Roy. He seemed almost nervous – nothing like the charming, confident Roy Ed was used to. "So what brings you all the way out to my neck of the wood?" he asked after the silence had stretched on for too long.

"I came here to apologise," Roy said.

"Oh!" Ed said softly. Whatever he had expected Roy to say that had been the absolute last thing on his list. "What for?" He thought that they were done with this and that he could just move on and get over it. He had started to try so why was Roy here now?

"For making you feel the way you did," Roy said. "For treating you the way I did and for disregarding your feelings."

"It's fine," Ed said shrugging as the kettle finished boiling. He turned away and started to spoon coffee into the cleanest mugs he could find to hand. "I mean I should have told you how I felt sooner then things wouldn't have gotten quite so fucked up. I mean even if you had known far be it from me to try and change you. I'm not..."

"I've told them it's over," Roy cut him off. Ed stiffened as Roy placed his hand on top of Ed's and he could feel his body mere inches away from his.

"What?" he asked, his voice coming out as a breathy whisper.

"The others," Roy clarified. "I've told then that it's over; I'm not going to be sleeping with any of them anymore."

"Why?"

"Because there's someone that I want to have a real, serious relationship with," Roy said. He reached up with his other hand and brushed Ed's hair off his neck. "Not just fooling around and friends who have sex."

"What?" Ed asked turning to face Roy with wide eyes. Had he actually just heard that right? Roy placed both his hands on the counter, either side of Ed, leaning in close to him.

"I want to have a relationship with you Ed," he said. "I've been doing a lot of thinking and I want you and only you. It just took me a little time to realise it."

"And now you have?" Ed asked. He wasn't sure how to feel about this sudden revelation. There was a part of him that was so happy to hear Roy say that he wanted to be in a proper relationship with him but at the same time he was a little angry. It was just another example of Roy suddenly deciding that he wanted him and Ed didn't have the time for that.

"I realise how that must sound to you," Roy said, "but, if you'll let me, I can show you that I really am serious about this."

"Roy..." Ed said softly as Roy reached up to brush his fringe out of his eyes.

"Ed," Roy said, "I'm crazy about you and I'll do everything I can to show you that."

"But how do I know you're not just going to sleep around behind my back again?" Ed asked.

"I guess I'll just have to build up that trust again," Roy said. He cupped Ed's cheek and ran his thumb over his bottom lip.

"Stop it," Ed told him, taking hold of Roy's wrist but not doing anything to move his hand away. Just having Roy touch him was making him weak, having his saying that he wanted to be with him was bringing Ed's resolve closer to breaking point. "You're doing this on purpose."

"Doing what?"

"Making my head all fuzzy because you know I'll just agree with you," Ed replied. Roy chuckled.

"Okay I'll stop," he said. He went to remove his hand but Ed's grip on his wrist tightened, stopping him. He didn't know what he wanted but he knew that he didn't want Roy to stop touching him. "Ed..."

"This is probably the most insane thing I have ever done," he said. "I mean I've always had this rule of 'never go back' but..."

"You're going to give me a chance?" Roy asked, his face lighting up and a smile spreading across his lips.

"Prove to me that it's not all just talk," Ed told him.

"Believe me, I will," Roy replied before leaning down and softly kissing Ed's lips. Ed kissed back, letting go of Roy's wrist and wrapping his arms around his neck. Roy wrapped his arms around Ed's waist, pulling him closer as they kissed, as if he would never let him go again.

"You're terrible," I told Lust. She just grinned at me.

"Oh come on," she said. "You're happy about this too."

"If you say so," I replied.

"Roy makes Ed happy, you know he does," she added when I opened my mouth to protest, "and if he's willing to change then why not give him another chance?"

"And if he fucks someone else again?" I asked.

"Then you can tell me 'I told you so'," she said.

"You're terrible," I replied shaking my head.

"You're perfect," Roy said softly as he pulled back for air. He ran his thumb over Ed's bottom lip and Ed could feel his knees going weak. He wanted to give in to Roy and let him have his way with him on the nearest available surface but he also wanted to at least seem as if he had some self-control.

"Kettle will need boiling again," Ed said. Roy chuckled and the sound made Ed shiver slightly.

"Well," Roy said brushing Ed's fringe out of his eyes again, "how about we forget the coffee, I take you out to lunch and we can talk some more?"

"That sounds good," Ed said smiling. He reached up, standing on his tip-toes and holding onto Roy for fear of falling over, so that he could pull him down into another kiss.

"See everything is going to work out just fine," Lust said.

"If you say so," I said, still sceptical.

"Trust me," she said. "Roy wants to make things right and he's going to keep trying to make things up to Ed and I say we let him."

"Especially if it's with big sweeping romantic gestures," Greed said. I stared over at him in confusion, eyebrows furrowed and mouth open in surprise. I could practically see the hearts beating in his eyes. He saw the look on my face and shrugged, grinning. "What? I can have a vested interest in this too?"

"I just never expected you to be such a hopeless romantic," I said. Greed just grinned at me and shrugged.

"I have hobbies," he stated.

"Hey guys," Pride pipped up from beside me. "Who's she?" Lust and I turned to look him. He was pointing at the screen and I looked up to see a tall woman walking towards Ed and Roy, waving.

"Roy!" a blonde woman walking towards them called, waving as she did. Ed looked up at Roy and saw him beaming at the woman.

"Riza!" he called back, also waving. Ed looked between the two of them, trying to work out from the limited information he had what was going on and who this woman was.

"Oh no..." he muttered softly to himself as his brain jumped to the most logical conclusion he had.

"What the hell?" I asked watching as Roy and the blonde woman embraced. It was a different kind of embrace from the last few times Ed had seen Roy getting it on with someone else but I still felt that twinge of jealousy spiking in my chest.

"I'm sure there is a perfectly good explanation for this," Lust said.

"There better be," I growled, folding my arms over my chest and pouting, keeping my eyes on the screen.

"So I see you're as useless at introductions as ever Roy," the blonde woman said turning to Ed once she and Roy had finished greeting each other. Roy laughed and rubbed the back of his neck in embarrassment.

"Sorry," he said. "Riza this is Ed..."

"The famous?" the woman, Riza, asked turning to smile at Ed.

"I'm famous?" Ed asked.

"Oh yes," Riza said, smiling conspiratorially. "Roy's told me all about you." Roy's cheeks turned pink and he cleared his throat nervously.

"That's funny," Ed replied, a slightly sardonic edge to his voice. "He hasn't mentioned you at all."

"No he wouldn't have done because he's useless," Riza chuckled shooting a pointed look in Roy's direction. "Riza Hawkeye," she said extending her hand for Ed to shake.

"Ed Elric," he said. "So how do you know Roy?"

"Oh we go way back," she said. "I've know Roy for years."

"Oh..." Ed said. He hadn't been expecting that.

"Ed, this is my best friend, Riza," Roy said. "She keeps me in check."

"Because you're not to be trusted on your own," Riza stated.

"You make me sound like I can't make sensible decisions unless supervised," Roy said.

"You can't," Riza replied. Ed chuckled.

"I'm sure you have quite a few embarrassing stories about him," he said.

"Of course," Riza laughed. Ed turned to smirk at Roy, a wicked gleam in his eyes, before turning back to Riza.

"You and I need to talk," he grinned. Riza grinned back at him. She placed her arm around Ed's shoulder and began leading him away.

"Well," she said, "there was this one time when we were sixteen when he..."

"Hey wait for me!" Roy called, running after them to catch up and do damage control before Riza revealed something too embarrassing for words.

"See," Lust said, "I told you everything would be fine." I sighed and let my head fall down onto the edge of the Control Panel.

"This is going to take some getting used to," I said. I mean I know I was more willing to admit that I got jealous when I thought about Roy with other people and I was willing to give him a second chance not to hurt Ed again but it was going to be hard work.

I was going to be on edge for a while whenever I saw Roy with someone else, wondering if anything was going on. I would just have to make sure that I didn't let it interfere too much with his and Ed's relationship and I kept it under control. If I did then it should all be fine. Well theoretically... As I said; this was going to take a lot of getting used to.

"It will be worth it in the end," Lust said, grinning and clapping me on the shoulder. I looked up at her sceptically but smiled, realising that she was probably right. Ed had managed to get through this and, if he had to, then he could get through it again.

"If you fucking say so..."

THE END